The Best of Instructables Has Arrived

Just got it today. Thank you so much Instructables. It's an honor to be featured!

Me neither... :(

No. :( Soon, I hope!

Pardon my spelling error. If only I had access to an 'edit' button...

No :-(

I've almost died every day when it hasn't come. I really almost died on Friday, when I held a large white heavy envelope in my hands. I was elated! It's here! It finally came! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA-

That mail isn't for you, it's boring papers for someone else.

_Oh.

I've had so many NDEs with this, it's ridiculous.

The instructables book is killing me!

I thought it had arrived today - big white envelope, return addressee one E. Wilhelm...

It was only the knitting book I won in the craft contest.

_{Kitewife was pleased, though...}

Hahaha, that happened to me last week. Not that the knitting book was bad - it's actually quite lovely... I just really want the Instructabook!

LOL< that must have been heartrending.

It was the right size and everything!

LOL

So was my package.

Oh! That's even worse! Come to think of it, I'm expecting two books from Alameda...

That's exactly what I think! Except for the bleedin' part. Weird British slang...must remember not to use any nouns, vowels, verbs or idioms when I go there...

. Yes, it has! Mine came in today. :P

Which company shipped it? UPS? USPS?

. UPS

I may grow old waiting for it...and Kiteman...poor Kiteman...he might as well just will the book to #1 and 2 sons, 'cause he'll be long gone by the time it gets to England...

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. Nannie nannie boo boo. Stick your head in doo doo. :P

Yayzorz! That only means mine will come either tomorrow or Thursday!

. Did you say something? I was reading my new book and wasn't paying attention to the conversation. Mea culpa.

. You should read the intro to the Science section. The guy that wrote it did a great job.

Who did it? Kiteman?

. Yeppers

Cool. Is it very long?

. Depends on how long long is. A full page with generous margins.

. The whole book is very good. I translated to paper much better than I thought it would.

Ahh!
i see a typo, 3rd line
kiteman you should see this, you would flip If you see what this guy said_{^{not really}}

You can't? What are you going to do while you wait for the book to come to your door?

Twitch while shakily stepping to the door to pick up the mail every day until it comes... Actually I have a few things to build and work on...

Hey, that's just what I've been doing! STOP COPYING ME

Nuhuh, you're a copier.

I've done worse...

_{(waiting for the Maker Faire this weekend)}

God, I sound like a walking ad!

What day did you go? I was there 3-closing on sunday

wait, i thought you couldn't get stuff from ibles over there in ireland...

I can just fine, it's not that remote.

you live in ireland?!?!?!

what, you couldn't tell from the beer chugging?

that's beer???????? i thought it was iced tea.

ha ha

so there's no drinking age in ireland?

*falls out of chair laughing*

MEANIE!

he's over 18... in ireland, i guess that counts... plus, he's tall and convincing...

The legal age for buying alcohol is 18 in the UK.

To drink it in restaurants and pubs (away from the main bar), you need to be 14.

To drink alcohol in the family home, you need to be five.

oh wow, lucky!

hahahahahahaha that's just too good... i always hear that in some places, you just have to be tall, and not piss them off too much...

No way. 5?

Oops. Looks like I've broken the law. Slightly. Well, dented it a little.

ha ha wow, that could go so well, and so wrong all at the same time...

That's not to say that we have a population of boozing toddlers, but it means that, in a well-run family, children grow up treating alcohol with respect, rather than a guilty pleasure they steal from their parents' drinks cabinet.

And silly me.. I'm 21 and don't care about it at all! Not all of us over here in the US are out to steal from mom and dad's liquor cabinet. :P Though my friend told me Italians are essentially the same way - She's said. everyone has wine with dinner.. even if you have to have it in a bottle. haha! I think it's kind of a good thing to teach them about it - Should lead them to better decisions later in life.

I wasn't meaning the US particularly, but if a child is told no, you're too young to drink, they will be more likely to try drinking alone, or with "unsuitable" friends, and be unable to learn the proper self-control associated with healthy drinking.

I wonder how many alcoholics started with a bottle of vodka, stolen from their parents?

Probably a good few.. even more probably started because the person who stole the bottle 'dared' somebody else to drink it I'm sure. :P hehe

That makes since. If they never see it or don't have it it makes them want to have it.

Exactly.

In the UK, children can drink at five. At five years of age, English children are allowed to consume spirits. It is legal to consume alcoholic beverages at five years old in Great Britain. No matter how I say it, I can't wrap my mind around it...

well no parent really gives their kids spirits, more likely a sip of wine at Christmas to try it, most kids hate the taste of alcohol anyway

#1 son quite likes the taste of fruit wines, but #2 son is very much a bitter man, which is unusual in one so young. Both boys like a drop of proper shandy, which they get on holidays only.

Hahaha, on comment preview I thought you said #2 son is very much a better man...

lol I'm more partial to a little port at christmas but to be honest I'm pretty much tea total, my sister at the tender age of 14 has a taste for a robust red. My parents always let us try a bit of wine with a meal, but drinking alcohol doesn't necessarily mean boozing :P

I suppose there's not much use for the term "Under age drinking" any more.

Not in your country, anyhow... 0_o

but i thought they said there were legal issues when doing that outside the country...

^{oops, i must have misread then...}

Ireland is not China ;-)
_{my apologies to any that live in China, I meant no offense}

???

Where it might be hard to get certain "information" to the people. China would be one place.....I was being a little sarcastic....I am sorry.

uhh... have you ever been to china? they're not like that anymore...

Well, I seem to have heard a recent story about the "Great Firewall of China". -)

ahh.... "because the media is never wrong" sorry, i just had to say that... they are very often wrong... after all, how smart can someone be, when they're job is to read off a page and ask questions?

Well, I don't follow "syndicated new", but rather the independent non-partisan casts of which there are very few, admittedly.

linked below too

Oh, hmmm... That article's pretty ironic...

oh @#$%! that's not good...

Possibly. I believe a different view may have been had, by the rest of the world during the olympics especially. Internet censorship etc.

why?

Well firstly the rest of the world is not use to Internet censorship, such as during the olympics. Normally if censorship occurs there needs to be some sort of legal reason as to why. I am under the assumption from what was portrayed in the media, that a few if not more sites were removed due to their content.

uhh... like what?
any examples?

Inaccessible Sites Tested by Users of the Real-Time Testing System

That's a start.

you have no proof. you don't know if it's real or not. you don't live in china or anything and don't have any experience. the next time you want to make fun of a country, make sure you have real proof.

Here is, er I mean it was a tool to test if you could get through the Great Firewall of China.....it seams to have been, um, blocked :-)

Great Firewall of China Tool

this is not true. i've been to china recently and most of the sites listed were not blocked. these sites are made my racist people. don't listen to them. GO CHINA!

This just delivered to my doorstep yesterday:

A report from a very respected Computer Security magazine: Hakin9 stated:

page 6 of issue 6 (2008) vol. 3

During the Olympic games in Beijing, visitors to China have been offered USB sticks containing a browser using the TOR network in order to bypass and defeat the Chinese Government censorship of the world wide web.
The package with TorBrowser and Torproject is also available for download from "The Chaos Computer Club website. China uses a network of filtering and blocking technologies to prevent the access to sites about the Tibet independence movement and past history that the Communist Republic doesn't want its citizens to know about.
The Chaos Computer Club has also produced step by step tutorials on how the Chinese censorship is done and how it can be defeated through the use of a proxy, an anonymizer (TOR) and a VPN.

*sigh* this is hopeless, but all LIES!

That is not through any 'syndicated news' center. This is reported by those that actually are in the know. But I don't want to burst your bubble nor make you believe that the world is not a fairy tale dream; believe as you wish :-) I like reality myself

what i tell is reality, you are reading sources, i actually tried it.

You are telling me you tried to break into the Tibet independence movement info sites ? You can't there there from there, and you can't get there from here....without a TOR

wtf????????

In other words, the article said certain portions of information, are viewable, except to residents of China. They were their and I know of them to be reliable sources. If you did not try to access that specific information mentioned, that everyone else in the world can, but they can not, you didn't try it. That is all I am saying.....I am not trying to argue. | do trust my non-syndicated sources however.

I SHALL RESORT TO IGNORANCE AND PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you wrong. ^{that oughta teach ya}

Okay, Scary......

Look mate, you haven't ever been to china, so how would you know? stop bothering him!

See my reply to Jellywoo dated: Oct 25, 2008. 11:59 AM